While on a trip to the British Museum as a boy, Charlie (Richard O’Sullivan, pictured below) falls in love with Wedgwood pottery and is fascinated…
Browsing: Movies 1955
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The last of a run of outstanding Westerns made by Anthony Mann, shortly to graduate to bigger (albeit perhaps less interesting) projects like El Cid! (1961), and…
Through a series of accidents, a Foreign Office filing clerk (Norman Wisdom) in Whitehall goes to Geneva with the British delegation. He becomes the most…
This lacklustre wartime espionage film tells the true story of how the floating ashore in Spain of the body of a supposed dispatch-carrying British officer…
Frustrated at losing On the Waterfront (1954), Frank Sinatra acted swiftly to pip Marlon Brando to Otto Preminger’s adaptation of the bestselling Nelson Algren novel…
During the Golden Age of Television, Paddy Chayefsky wrote the teleplay Marty. It was notable for its focus on the ordinary life of an unmarried butcher.…
This real-life biopic portrays the unlikely rise of Captain Joseph C ‘Mac’ McConnell Jr (played here by Alan Ladd, who seems way too old for…
Produced by Nettefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, this 1955 comedy thriller starred Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge. It was the last major feature…
On a small cargo ship – the USS Reluctant (known as ‘the Bucket’ by its crew) – floating somewhere in the south Pacific during World War II,…
Two hundred years ago the great heath of Dorsetshire ran wild and bleak down to the sea. Here, in hidden coves and lonely villages, the…
Sisters Eileen and Ruth Sherwood move to New York City from rural Ohio to chase their dreams: Pretty but naive Eileen (Janet Leigh) wants to…
The Night of the Hunter is a remarkable parable about good and evil set in rural America. Evil comes in the form of Robert Mitchum’s psychopathic…
Curly McLain (Gordon MacRae) is a cowboy in the territory of Oklahoma (shortly to become a state). He is courtin’ Laurey (Shirley Jones), a sweet…
Directed by Basil Dearden, and taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, Out of the Clouds is an ensemble piece from Ealing Studios composed…
When a drifter arrives in a small Kansas town during Labour Day celebrations and looks up an old college friend, he is invited to participate…
“Try not to judge the Priesthood by the priest” Set during the Cold War in an unnamed totalitarian Communist state behind the Iron Curtain, a…
Major Bernard Benson (Charlton Heston), a hard-boiled and heavy-handed Army officer noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking, is given a choice to be…
This Hammer version of the 1953 television show features a hunt in London for the survivor of a rocket ship who is being transmuted from…
James Dean lit-up the screen as mixed-up kid and bad boy, Jim Stark. Jim’s real problem is that he despises his father for his weakness and…
When director Jules Dassin sent Tony le Stephanois (Belgian actor Jean Servais) and his gang into a Rue de Rivoli jewellery store, little did he…